I heard sirens nearby. Not just from one vehicle, but several, all getting closer.
Anyone who’s in a car when Shatterbird hits is fucked.
So are they coming to assist after reports of Skitter’s rude awakenings and bug text?
I could sense my neighborhood, and the black widows that were still where I’d put them. Every step brought more bugs into my focus.
Oh yeah, the black widows that wove the costume I just mentioned!
Ants beneath people’s lawns, earthworms in gardens, pillbugs and earwigs under stones and objects in garages and carports, cockroaches in the darkest corners of cabinets. I woke the people I could and left them their warnings.
I think this makes for the second chapter of Worm to explicitly feature actual worms, after 7.2.
I knew the time had to have run out. But I was so close. I could sense the block my house was on, the neighbor’s house.
Taylor’s house is still there, right? Didn’t she at some point mention checking on it?
I get the sense that she’s about to arrive just in time to sense her house getting glassploded, possibly with Danny inside.
Danny’s death flag isn’t catching anywhere near as much wind as it was during Buzz and Extermination, but him potentially dying and Taylor having to deal with that is not an idea I’m willing to dismiss offhandedly.
I’m not sure whether the fact that he’s currently Taylor’s only real tie back to her civilian identity makes that more likely or less likely. It can be argued either way.
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